Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is an American novelist and essayist. He is also a co-founder and editor of The Morning News, an online magazine. Born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Darien, Connecticut Baldwin now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 March 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.
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My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
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Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.
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I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.
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In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
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I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
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About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.
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Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.
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Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.
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Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.
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My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.
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As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.
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The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.